Character of God

Many non-Christian scholars of religion stress the difference between man and God to such a degree that they end up saying we cannot truly know anything about Him at all. The incarnation affirms that despite the Creator’s transcendence, God ...Read More

That God pours His love for us into our hearts helps us to be confident that those who receive such an outpouring will endure to the end in faith. If the Lord Himself convinces us of His own love for ...Read More

One of the greatest blessings we have to look forward to in Christ is the
ability to dwell in a new heaven and earth with Him as our light. On that
day, we will no longer stumble but will see ...Read More

Many well-intentioned people promise that coming to Jesus, the Great
Shepherd of the sheep, will solve all of life’s problems. While one day this will
be true, we will face the enemies of the world, the flesh, and the ...Read More

When we are having difficulty trusting the Lord, it can be helpful for us to recount all the ways in which He has been faithful in the past. First, we should remember how God kept His promises to Noah, Abraham ...Read More

Martin Luther comments on today’s passage that “so great is the blindness of the sinner that he abuses to his own harm the things that have been given to him for his own benefit.” Though Paul has the Jews ...Read More

Dr. John Piper writes: “God’s own glory is uppermost in his own affections. In everything he does, his purpose is to preserve and display that glory. To say his glory is uppermost in his own affections means that he ...Read More

John Murray was one of the most influential Reformed theologians of the twentieth century. In his commentary on Romans, Murray says in his exposition of 1:18 that “wrath is the holy revulsion of God’s being against that which is ...Read More

Even many professing Christians believe that they become citizens of heaven because they have lived a “good life.” The gospel tells us that no one but Christ has lived a life that is truly good. He alone deserves the ...Read More

Paul’s “but now” of Romans 3:21 describes a momentous change in history. The people who lived before Christ lived in an era characterized by unrighteousness and wrath, dwelling under the condemnation of God’s law. Now that Christ has come ...Read More

We are accustomed to identifying our enemies solely as those who hate us
here on earth and whose opposition is easy to see and experience. Yet we
should never forget that we come into this world at enmity with God ...Read More

At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus offers us only two options.
Either we will build our lives on His teaching and survive in that last day or
we will build our lives on the sinking sand ...Read More

Regeneration was not unknown to the saints of the old covenant. However, Scripture indicates that new covenant believers understand the Lord’s work of regeneration far more clearly than those who lived before the coming of Christ. Ezekiel’s teaching on ...Read More

We bring nothing to the Lord when we come to Him for salvation. Even our faith, the instrument of our justification, is a gift from Him (Eph. 2:8–10). This is a great truth that we must tell ourselves ...Read More